Quotes about Dominance
Some instinct tells me that eternal vigilance is the price of supremacy.
— Mark Twain
Bitterness has not the capacity to make the distinction between some and all . When some members of the dominant group, particularly those in power, are racist in attitude and practice, bitterness accuses the whole group.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
He demanded of all people the one thing he had never granted anybody: obedience.
— Ayn Rand
It's clear that when we're this outnumbered by the creatures, we have to take a page from the British Empire and rule the lesser species through intimidation. That's why the single most important thing you can do as a human is to dominate an animal. Need more proof? "Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." I'd say that about covers it.
— Stephen Colbert
Who had the biggest army in the ancient world? Caesar Augustus in Rome, and that is precisely how he was able to dominate that world. Nevertheless, his army is nothing compared to this angelic stratias that has lined up behind the new emperor. Remember Isaiah's prophesy that Yahweh would one day bare his mighty arm before all the nations. N.T. Wright has magnificently observed that the prophecy finds its fulfillment in the tiny arm of the baby Jesus coming out of his manger-crib.
— Robert Barron
I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.
— Frank Herbert
Persuasion is better than force.
— Aesop
Words are the verbal embodiment of power.
— Robin Sharma
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude
— Aldous Huxley
I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.
— Drew Barrymore
Persuasion is better than force.
— Aesop
He loves power. A terrible love.
— Euripides